Stefano Nichele

Scientific publications

Dumo, Glare Eugenio; Lind, Pedro; Nichele, Stefano (2022). An HCI Experiment to Explore Interactive Artificial Life Art. Stephanidis, S; Antona, M; Ntoa, S (Ed.). HCI International 2022 Posters. Chapter. p. 204-211. Springer.

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Olsen, Kristoffer; Yazidi, Anis; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Towards the Neuroevolution of Low-level artificial general intelligence. 15 p. Frontiers in Robotics and AI . Vol. 9.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/98309

Heiney, Kristine Anne; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Fiskum, Vegard; Sandvig, Axel; Sandvig, Ioanna; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Neuronal avalanche dynamics and functional connectivity elucidate information propagation in vitro. 17 p. Frontiers in Neural Circuits . Vol. 16.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3039495

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Lind, Pedro; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Assessing the robustness of critical behavior in stochastic cellular automata. 8 p. Physica D : Non-linear phenomena . Vol. 441.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3027900

Bhandari, Shailendra; Overskott, Sebastian Testanière; Adamopoulos, Ioannis; Lind, Pedro; Denysov, Sergiy; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Evolving Quantum Circuits to Implement Stochastic and Deterministic Cellular Automata Rules. Chopard, Bastien; Bandini, Stefania; Dennunzio, Alberto; Arabi Haddad, Mira (Ed.). Cellular Automata, 15th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2022, Geneva, Switzerland, September 12–15, 2022, Proceedings. 1. p. 119-129. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Walker, Kathryn; Najarro, Elias; Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian (2022). A single neural cellular automaton for body-brain co-evolution. GECCO '22: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. Konferanseartikkel. p. 148-151. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Riccio, Piera; Galati, Francesco; Zuluaga, Maria; De Martin, Juan Carlos; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Translating Emotions from EEG to Visual Arts. Martins, Tiago; Rodríguez-Fernández, Nereida; M. Rebelo, Sérgio (Ed.). Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, held as part of EvoStar 2022, Madrid, Spain, April 20–22, 2022, Proceedings. 1. p. 243-258. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...

Nadizar, Giorgia; Medvet, Eric; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Nichele, Stefano; Pellegrino, Felice Andrea; Zullich, Marco (2022). Merging pruning and neuroevolution: towards robust and efficient controllers for modular soft robots. Knowledge engineering review (Print) . Vol. 37.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3040433

Farner, Jørgen Jensen; Weydahl, Håkon; Jahren, Christian Ruben; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Nichele, Stefano; Heiney, Kristine Anne (2021). Evolving spiking neuron cellular automata and networks to emulate in vitro neuronal activity. Haddow, Pauline (Ed.). IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2021. KAPITTEL. IEEE Press.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2981845

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Dahl, Annelene; Nichele, Stefano; Mello, Gustavo (2021). A Deep Learning-Based Tool for Automatic Brain Extraction from Functional Magnetic Resonance Images of Rodents. Arai, Kohei (Ed.). Intelligent Systems and Applications, Proceedings of the 2021 Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2021) Volume 1. Artikkel. p. 549-558. Springer Nature.

Research reports

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Nichele, Stefano; Yazidi, Anis; Zhang, Jianhua; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Sandvig, Ioanna; Tufte, Gunnar (2023). Optimization of dynamical systems towards criticality and intelligent behavior. ISBN: 978-82-326-6953-0. 179 p. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

Variengien, Alexandre; Pontes Filho, Sidney; Glover, Tom Eivind; Nichele, Stefano (2021). Towards Self-organized Control: Using Neural Cellular Automata to Robustly Control a Cart-pole Agent. 14 p. doi: 10.54854/imi2021.01

De Domenico, Manlio; Brockmann, Dirk; Camargo, Chico; Gershenson, Carlos; Goldsmith, Daniel; Jeschonnek, Sabine; Kay, Lorren; Nichele, Stefano; Nicolas, José; Schmickl, Thomas; Stella, Massimo; Brandoff, Josh; Martínez Salinas, Ángel José; Sayama, Hiroki (2019). Complexity Explained. 20 p. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/TQGNW

Nichele, Stefano; Molund, Andreas (2017). Deep Reservoir Computing Using Cellular Automata. 9 p.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02806.pdf

Nichele, Stefano; Gundersen, Magnus (2017). Reservoir Computing Using Non-Uniform Binary Cellular Automata. 9 p.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.03812.pdf

Nichele, Stefano; Tufte, Gunnar (2015). Evolvability, Complexity and Scalability of Cellular Evolutionary and Developmental Systems. ISBN: 978-82-326-0730-3. 160 p.

Dissemination

Tapio, Hege; Nichele, Stefano; Bergaust, Kristin; Christensen-Scheel, Boel (2022). Artists Encoding New Meanings through BioArt and Unconventional Computing. Adamatzky, Andrew (Ed.). WSPC Book Series in Unconventional Computing: Volume 2 Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy. Chapter 23. p. 381-395. World Scientific.

Nichele, Stefano; Sæbo, Solve; Pettersen, Klas Henning; Lepperød, Mikkel Elle (2022). NeuroAI - A strategic opportunity for Norway and Europe. Nordic Machine Intelligence (NMI) .
https://journals.uio.no/NMI/article/view/9950

Nadizar, Giorgia; Medvet, Eric; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Nichele, Stefano; Pellegrino, Felice Andrea; Zullich, Marco (2022). Erratum: Merging pruning and neuroevolution: Towards robust and efficient controllers for modular soft robots (The Knowledge Engineering Review DOI: 10.1017/S0269888921000151). Knowledge engineering review (Print) . Vol. 37.

Heiney, Kristine Anne; Józsa, Mónika; Rule, Michael; Nichele, Stefano; O'Leary, Timothy (2022). Encoding of behaviour by pairwise neuronal interactions correlates with representational drift. Bernstein Conference 2022.

Heiney, Kristine Anne; Rule, Michael; Józsa, Mónika; Nichele, Stefano; O'Leary, Timothy (2022). Changing to stay the same. Bernstein Conference Satellite Workshop – Ready, set-point, go: Stability and change across neuronal scales.

Heiney, Kristine Anne; Józsa, Mónika; Rule, Michael; Nichele, Stefano; O'Leary, Timothy (2022). Encoding of behaviour by pairwise neuronal interactions correlates with representational drift. FENS Forum 2022. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.

Heiney, Kristine Anne; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Fiskum, Vegard; Sandvig, Axel; Sandvig, Ioanna; Nichele, Stefano (2022). Neuronal avalanche dynamics and functional connectivity as indicators of the computational capacity of in vitro neuronal networks. FENS Summer School on "Artificial and natural computations for sensory perception: what is the link?". Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Walker, Kathryn; Najarro, Elias; Nichele, Stefano; Risi, Sebastian (2022). A Unified Substrate for Body-Brain Co-evolution. 2nd International Conference on Embodied Intelligence. Fumiya Iida.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12066

Jensen Farner, Jørgen; Weydahl, Håkon; Jahren, Ruben; Huse Ramstad, Ola; Nichele, Stefano; Heiney, Kristine Anne (2021). Evolving spiking neuron cellular automata and networks to emulate in vitro neuronal activity. International Conference on Evolvable Systems, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. IEEE.

Pontes Filho, Sidney; Nichele, Stefano (2021). A Conceptual Bio-Inspired Framework for the Evolution of Artificial General Intelligence. International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10410